Primary drivers of change in EU Arctic fjord socio-ecological systems



Work package one (WP1)



Financed under grant #869154

Why fjords?

Important socio-ecological systems whose climate impacts may differ from IPCC AR6








Range of fjords throughout the EU Arctic provides “natural laboratory”

Socio-ecological systems?

Socio-ecological systems?

Cryosphere

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Social

Key drivers determined by literature and available data

Takeaway

  • As the planet warms the cryosphere will melt
  • Removes one entire category of the socio-ecological system
  • Will no longer be “Arctic”

Thank you for listening!


Robert Schlegel



LOV, Sorbonne Université – CNRS, France